Ditch team members are found all over the streets of Luzhou. Their main task is to clean the ditches on both sides of the road and dig out the dirt in the ditches to keep the ditches clean and smooth, so that we can avoid flooding caused by ditch siltation during the typhoon strike and the heavy rain season.

Ditch team needs the following equipment during work: Reflective vests, safety helmets, gloves and work shoes. The front end of work shoes is very hard so as to prevent them from accidentally injuring their feet when lifting the cover.

Before digging ditches, they must lift the ditch lid first. This action may seem simple, but it is not easy at all. Because the ditch lid is very heavy, they must make every effort to lift it. Therefore, when lifting the ditch lid, they must be very careful. If it is accidentally pressed by the ditch lid, the foot will surely be seriously injured.

After carefully lifting the ditch lid, they will use the sheet iron like a scraper to scrap away the dust, leaves and accumulated dirt on the ditch edge, and then begin to dig ditch. When digging ditches, they must adjust their hands, feet and body posture to stand firm, otherwise they may accidentally slip down. It spends a lot of effort to dig ditches, and the ladle for digging ditches is very heavy. Long hours of work make the ditching workers continue to bend with the force, so that they often suffer waist and back ache, and even bone sprain.

When digging ditches, many people dislike the foul smell, and especially in summer, the smell will become even more unpleasant. The ditches in front of some stores are particularly dirty, such as the chicken steak stores and some snack stalls. Because these stores clean the items beside the ditch for convenience. Therefore, the ditch is full of the oil contamination, kitchen waste, residue, etc., produced by them. That smell is very terrible. Sometimes it is necessary to deploy the large clean car and flush it with the large water pipe to keep the ditches clean.

In addition to carrying out routine work of digging ditches, they also provide special services to the public occasionally. For example, people may call them because their mobile phones or keys and other things fall into the ditch and they have to endure the foul smell and go to the ditch to pick them up.

In the hot summer, they have to clean the ditches in the entire alley. With sweat streaming down their back, they dig spoonful of dredged sludge and rancid residue to pour into the bucket after draining water. They continue to work for the entire morning unconsciously with too severe backache to stand upright. However, when raising their heads, they saw the passers-by covering their noses and mouths and leaving quickly while passing them ......

We once followed the ditch team on the spot to experience the digging of ditches personally so as to feel the unknown hardworking of digging ditches. Their work is really very hard, and we should thank them very much, because only with them we can make our environment cleaner.